Me: I think it's possible that we might not need to figure out biotechnological advances for how we can create superbabies through embryo selection or so, but that actually they might already be around 1000 or more superbabies born on earth per year, only they happen to be born into an environment where they don't get educated and don't learn the necessary skills to advance science. By superbabies I mean genetic potential for intelligence of >=+7std on the human distribution.

Imaginary person (IP): What, how could that be true? There being some hunter tribe of genetical supergeniuses which are almost not communicating with the rest of humanity?

Me: Sorta yeah.

IP: And where would those superbabies be?

Me: Here:

IP: Are you joking?

Me: No. See this excellent reddit post (or my wrapper post around it) for why it's IMO a pretty [...]

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(04:08) Sidenote on how orcas (and pilot whales) could be useful datapoints for AI alignment

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First published:
November 5th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKM4CTjz5fPB7vznb/an-alternative-approach-to-superbabies

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